Places and funding available for the e-Science MSc/Diploma programme at the University of Edinburgh in 2006/07

Places and funding available for the e-Science MSc/Diploma programme at
the University of Edinburgh in 2006/07

The e-Science MSc programme is a collaboration between Edinburgh's
Schools of Physics and Informatics, in conjunction with the National
e-Science Centre. It aims to provide students with a grounding in the
principles underlying e-Science and
experience of working with e-Science and Grid Computing
technologies, and will prepare them equally well for a career
in academic research or in the commercial IT sector. In addition
to the core e-Science courses, students may choose options from
a large pool of courses from the Informatics MSc and the MSc in
Geographic Information Science, plus the MPhys programmes in Physics
and Astrophysics, so that each can design a curriculum tailored
to their individual interests.

The principal entry requirement is a 2:2 (or equivalent) or better
in a degree which provides experience of computer programming: the
course language is Java, but this is taught from scratch as part of
the MSc, so the requirement is only that students have proven
expertise in a programming language.

Further details of the MSc programme are available online
at www.ph.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/degrees/msc_escience.html
or by emailing me (rgm@roe.ac.uk). Places are available on
the MSc for entry in September 2006, and some funding is
still available for suitably qualified UK or EU students:
anyone wishing to be considered for funding is strongly
recommended to contact me by email as soon as possible.

Robert Mann
e-Science MSc/Diploma Programme Director
School of Physics
University of Edinburgh